Newly elected Bay State Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one of the country’s rising political stars, will keynote a joint University–City of Boston celebration of the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) holiday on Monday, January 21. The 90-minute ceremony, which will begin at 1 pm at the George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom, is the first […]

With Massachusetts and much of the country reporting widespread influenza cases, BU has scheduled an additional campus vaccination clinic for students on Friday, January 25. The clinic will run from 9 am until 3 pm on the FitRec lower-level basketball courts, accessible across the street from 25 Buick Street (signs on Buick will direct students […]

View this post on Instagram A post shared by EGG GANG 🌍 (@world_record_egg) on Jan 4, 2019 at 9:05am PST It’s the egg that refuses to be eggnored. And it’s one of those cheesy stories that somebody randomly hatched and might leave your brain, well, scrambled. Bad puns aside, surely you have seen this […]

Kevin O’Connor, host of the venerable PBS television series This Old House, stands on a roof in Newton, Mass., helping fireplace installer Jonathan Hawkins attach the final sections of a new chimney pipe. “So, how far above the roofline are you shooting for here?” asks O’Connor (Questrom’99), prompting Hawkins to explain how he calculated the […]

TAKEAWAYS: • Albro and his lab are bringing together two sides of the scientific debate—engineers and developmental scientists • Growing cartilage tissue is not as simple as people once thought, but scientists are making important progress When imagining a patient suffering from osteoarthritis you might picture a grandmother struggling with hip pain or a grandfather […]